Hi, Am 27.09.2013 22:05, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > Control: block 724678 by 724686 > > On 26/09/13 15:34, Markus Wanner wrote: >> as correctly reported by Rebecca N. Palmer, flightgear no longer builds >> on kfreebsd-* (due to systemd dependency). Please remove the kfreebsd >> variants of the flightgear binary package from testing. > > I'm a little concerned by this: > > * that a package can 'Build-Depend' on systemd seems rather odd, It build-depends on libudev-dev, which is not quite the same. > * as a sign of things to come, that systemd's non-portability is > spreading to other software, libudev has always been Linux-specific, nothing new here. > * that the package's removal is requested, AFAIK without mentioning this > to debian-bsd@, or Cc'ing us on a FTBFS bug for example so that someone > might take a look at this. > > But thankfully Pino Toscano contributed a patch that can fix this, by > simply changing the Build-Depends, therefore I hope the removal is not > needed now: http://bugs.debian.org/724686 Does the package also actually work on non-Linux ? What I'm concerned about is, that we are building software which isn't actually runnable. A good example is gnome-shell, which takes a lot of effort to keep building on non-Linux but ttbomk is totally non-functional on e.g. kfreebsd. Removing software for those architectures is imho more honest. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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